14 July 1942
Marshall Islands
USS Dolphin torpedoed an escorted Yusen-A class cargo ship near Roi-Namur. The ship appeared to be previously damaged, even so, the torpedo doesn't appear to have inflicted lethal damage. Dolphin encountered an escorted tanker and took a shot at it as well, but missed.
Malaya
Singapore was targeted with raids and sweeps for another day. We dominated the Oscars in the morning but the fight was nearly even by the end of the day. A training flight of Beaufighters was drawn into the fight. Enemy losses: 5 Oscars, 2 Zeroes; Allied losses: 2 Mohawks, 3 Beaufighters. HMS Repulse took another hit, other than that, not much damage on the ground.
Palembang
Sweeps and raids here too. Our CAP managed to pick off a few bombers that were too far away from escorting fighters; 1 Nell and 3 Sallies. Another Nell was taken down by flak. Base damage was pretty light.
China
I had one of my P-40 squadrons on long-range CAP over Chengchow to try to bolster the P-43s there. The losses today were all on our side, 4 P-40s, 1 P-43, and 1 SB-III bomber. Our bombers caused moderate casualties on the ground.
Hawaii
Looks like we got 3 enemy planes on the ground bombing Lahaina. On Oahu, casualties were 595 to 235 favoring us, but we didn't have many squads actually destroyed while he did. Several enemy units were wiped out:
25th Ind. Engineer Regiment
28th Shipping Engineer Regiment
12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
144th Infantry Regiment
The enemy is now reportedly surrounded. I'll be resting my marines tomorrow, they need a break.
E. Australia
The Anson light bombers struck again, hitting a KD6A class sub with a bomb near Brisbane.
Reinforcements, etc.
HMS Royal Sovereign is about to arrive at Sri Lanka after being repaired from battle damage sustained in February. It was spotted by a floatplane from one of the subs camping here, but not attacked.
6th British Brigade arrives at Aden - 71% Strength, unrestricted
A previously-arrived British Brigade at Aden is now at full strength and I'm moving it to Rangoon.
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